School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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1, When a person dies in a house the old people believe that it is right to distribute all his clothes among the poor.
2. If old people met two magpies on a road going on a journey, they would have luck that day; if they met one they would have bad luck.
3. If old people say a cat with his back to the fire, they would say it was the sign of bad weather.
4. It was believed by old people that if they got a pain in their side, to spit under a stone would cure them of their ailment.
5. The old people would not let any woman into a house on New Year's Day unless a man had gone in previously.
6. The old people believe that it is right to kill some fowl on St Martin's Eve.
Maureen Doyle 4-4-1938I got this from Michael Crowley
Carrowreagh West,
Cranny,
Ennis
- Collector
- Maureen Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowreagh West, Co. Clare
